Starship – SN8 – High-Altitude Flight Test

Re:Starship – SN8 – High-Altitude Flight Test by tw04 on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @06:15PM (#25366801)

I believe it was burning through the copper liner due to fuel starvation (oxygen rich which makes it SUPER hot)

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1613/496/1600/Merlin1C_Ch...

Seriously getting downvoted? That's what caused the issue.... Elon already tweeted they had low fuel pressure...

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Re:Starship – SN8 – High-Altitude Flight Test by mulmen on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @06:32PM (#25367054)

You may be right but Starship uses Raptor engines, not Merlins.

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Re:Starship – SN8 – High-Altitude Flight Test by tw04 on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @06:35PM (#25367093)

I'm aware, the picture was to show what the liner looks like (approximately), the engines are of similar design. I apologize if anyone thought that was literally the liner in question.

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Re:Starship – SN8 – High-Altitude Flight Test by mulmen on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @06:49PM (#25367267)

Ah yeah, lots of confusion re: TEB in other comments. Seems like a lot of people have the Raptor and Merlin mixed up so at least in this context probably have to be explicit.

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